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The next day her car was found in a hedge down a slope below Newlands Corner but she was nowhere to be seen.

Articles printed in the Surrey Advertiser and Surrey Times at the time detail the events surrounding the 35-year-old's disappearance and the police investigation, which took place during the days she was missing.

Articles from the Surrey Advertiser and Surrey Times at the time of Agatha Christie's disappearance in 1926

The archives tell of the thousands of people who joined the search for Mrs Christie, with police from Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Berkshire all on the case, as well as her own fox terrier dog.

Albury Mill Pond and Postford Pond were both dredged as part of the search.

Meanwhile the entire country hummed with conjecture over what might have happened to the writer, who had just published her sixth novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, to critical acclaim.

A hoax cryptic letter, which read, "Ask Candle Lanche, He knows more about the Silent Pool than...", led many to believe she had drowned herself in the nearby Silent Pool.

In fact rumour surrounding her disappearance was so rife that even fellow detective writer and Sherlock Homes creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was drawn into the enigma and took one of Mrs Christie's gloves to a medium in a bid to solve the mystery.

And then, of course, there was speculation over who might have been involved, with many pointing the finger at her husband, Col. Archie Christie, who was having an affair.

After 11 days Mrs Christie was found at the Swan Hydropathic Hotel in Harrogate, where she was spotted by a musician, named as Mr Capper.

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During the investigation it had emerged that she had in fact written to her husband's brother to say that she was feeling unwell and was heading to a spa in York but checked into the hotel using the pseudonym Theresa Neele - the same surname as her husband's mistress.

Mrs Chirstie spoke very little of her disappearance and despite some believing it was a publicity stunt, she only ever spoken of her 11-day hiatus as being down to memory loss.

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From the archives...

Agatha Christie's mystery 11-day disappearance

Friday December 3, 1926, 10pm: Agatha Christie leaves her home in Sunningdale, Berkshire

Saturday, December 4, 6.15am : Merrow resident Edward McAllister is asked by a lady, assumed to be Mrs Christie, to help start a car 300 yards from Newlands Corner. It then drives off in the direction of Merrow